Improvement in process of separating- nails from felt



`WILLI-Agn Jonas-or New Yonne N. Y.

" Letters Patent No. 106,171-, dated August 9, 1870.

` 'IMPaovm/,mnr 1N PROCESS OPSEPARATING NAILS PROM FELT.

The Schedule referred to in these Letteris Patent" and `making part of the same.

To y all whoml it amylconcern:

. Y. Be it known that 1,'W1ntrmn JONES, of the' city, county,and State olf-,New York, have invented ane-w and improved Machinelfor removing nails from old felt, &c., and that the followingldesorption, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, hereinafter referred to, forms a full and exact specification of kthegsame, wherein I haveset forth vthe nature and principles ot my saidimprovement, by which my in'- ,'vention maybe distinguished from allothersof'a sim-` ilar class, togetherwit-h-sueli parts as I claim and desire :to have secured to. me by Letters Patent.. The objectof:thisdnvention lis to lsepzn'ate nails,

etc., i'rom old felt that has been-stripped from the hot-v Vtoms, off"sea-goingY vessels; these nails, being of copper orfcomposition, al'elof muchv value, and to pick them out oneby one `fromfthe felt, to which they adhere l with *considerable tenacity, is not only troublesome,

lbut it involves much lossof time. y

Myrinyention :is 'learlyfrillustrated by the v`accom- -panying drawings, whereinj. Figurelrepresents a `sideview' of my invention,

y with afportion of the sidebroken out, showing the in- `tcrior mechanism, and i A Fignre2, a plan or ltopviewol' the same. Silnilai'letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the sereraldrmvings.' y r y n Arepresents a c ylindrcal vessel of wood or other material, and of anyconvcnient size. `At or near the `top is an opening, surplnswater to pass off.

` About midway betweenthetop and bottomis a a, tno allow the `trap-douai, through which the disintegrated feltrnay be taken from time to time, and nea-r the bottom is an fopening, i, through which` water may be admitted by n. lneanslof a pipe. ,y

`13 isa cent-ral spindle, passing through the length of' the vesselA, one Aendbeing 'pivoted onthe. bear` ing c, and the other extending through the crossbard. i W l y This spindle is iitted'with a bevel gear-wheel at e, and the part of the spindle that Yis within the cylindrical vesselis provided with two rings, ff', placed at right angles to each other, so that, when pieces offelt with the nails adhering to them are put into the cylindri-v cal4 vessel, and the water 'admitted and the spindle is rotated on its axis by means of the gear-wheel g andV crank h, the wings will constantly stir",- np and agitate the mass of felt, nails, and water in the cylindrical vessel; the nails being the heayiesmwill, b'y reason thereof', gravitate4 to the bottom, the.l surplus 'watei owing ont of the o ning, :aand the disintegrated felt removed-through. the trap l. v v

The wings ff are provided withl sluts orlopenings j, so that the water &c., maypass freely around the interior of the vessehand facilitate the operation of y. themachine.

Having thus described my invention,

What-felam as new, and desire to secure by L'etters Patent, is-

The herein described process for separating'nals from felt, the same consisting in placing the felt in aV vessel, A, containing water and provided with orifices for the admission-and escape of water, andhaving a trap door, b, and then subjecting it to the. action oi' rotary beaters B fj, operated by means of gearing h Ae g, whereby the nails arel loosened from the felt and Vtall to the bottom ofthe vessel, all substantially as set forth.

. WILLIAM J NES.

Witnessesz G..M. PLYMProN,

H. L. WATTENBERG. 

